Ghana has deported at least six west Africans to Togo after they were expelled to Accra as part of an immigration crackdown by US President Donald Trump, their lawyers said Tuesday.

Eleven deportees in total had sued the Ghanaian government to stop their further deportation, but one of their lawyers, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, told a judge at the Ghana High Court's Human Rights Division they had been "deported" over the weekend while the case was underway.

One was released to a relative in Ghana while six were confirmed to have been sent to Togo, Barker-Vormawor told AFP.

The rest were probably "sent to Togo as well. But we haven't been able to establish contact" with them, he said.

The fate of the deportees has been shrouded in secrecy as lawyers, human rights advocates and journalists t

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